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First Class Battleship

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • derangedlemur said:
    It's probably a cruiser; it looks a bit small for a dreadnought anyway, and the all big gun nature of the armament would rule out a pre-dreadnought battleship.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Well, sadly it's not HMS King Edward VII, whose sailors we encountered before here. But similar - spot the differences ...
  • derangedlemur said:
    Actually, maybe it is a pre-dreadnought. It looks quite like HMS Goliath. Or HMS Formidable. Edit: Or indeed quite a large number of late pre-dreadnought classes. e.g. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/HMS_Montagu_%...
  • ccferrie said:
    Looks like it was moored somewhere around here
  • ccferrie said:
    Here's a record of HMS Ocean (a Canopus-Class battleship) in Castletownbere in 1905 www.plymouth.gov.uk/edwardianphotos/notice824.html

Calvin Coolidge & sons (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    see Calvin Coolidge & family (LOC)

TENNESSEE (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    see TENNESSEE (LOC)
  • B-59 said:
    A similar photo is in The Guthrie daily leader., June 10, 1920, HOME, Image 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063952/1920-06-10/ed-... and in The Sun and the New York herald., June 13, 1920, Section 5 Rotographic Section, Image 60 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030273/1920-06-13/ed-...
  • Christopher Cavas said:
    Both photos were likely taken at New York Navy Yard on the day of the battleship's commissioning, 3 June 1920. The deck view is taken from the ship's fantail looking forward. Note numerous visitors on deck, including women in formal attire, as well as photographers with tripods, indicating a festive occasion, yet a great number of shipyard workers dressed for work occupy most of the topside spaces above the main deck. The ship is incomplete -- scaffolding surrounds the main top, and calibration equipment is attached to the 14-inch guns of No.4 main batter turret. TENNESSEE was officially completed and delivered to the Navy on 16 September 1920.
  • Art Siegel said:
    Christopher Cavas follow photo link for article about commissioning ceremony.